Science: Chemurgy: 1943

The war, changing the U.S. farm problem from surplus to shortage, has
also reversed the chemurgy-movement. For eight years the National Farm
Chemurgic Council has tried to solve the farm problem by promoting
diversified crops of use to industry. But today the farmer needs
manpower, not new markets. It is industry that needs chemurgy, not the
farmer. Without agricultural help, rubber, alcohol and explosives
programs would be facing disaster.

The ninth Chemurgic Conference of Agriculture, Industry and Science,
meeting in Chicago last fortnight, changed its outlook without
blinking. The veteran farm crusaders were absent or silent. Research
men from major industriesrubber,...